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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797038803321

Autore

Hastings Derek (Derek Keith)

Titolo

Catholicism and the roots of Nazism : religious identity and national socialism / / Derek Hastings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-988924-4

0-19-025451-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

335.6094309042

Soggetti

National socialism - Religious aspects

National socialism and religion

Christianity and politics - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany History 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ultramontanism and its discontents : the "peculiarities" of Munich's prewar Catholic tradition The path toward positive Christianity : religious identity and the earliest stages of the Nazi movement, 1919-1920 Embodying positive Christianity in Catholic Munich : the ideal of religious Catholicism and early Nazi growth, 1920-1922 A "Catholic-oriented movement"? The zenith of Catholic-Nazi activism, 1922-1923 The Beerhall Putsch and the transformation of the Nazi movement after 1923

Sommario/riassunto

Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism.